# خالی
## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish قالی (qalı), from Persian خالی (xâli, “carpet”), itself from Old Armenian Կարին (Karin), a city which was famed for rugs.

#### Alternative forms

* قالی (kalı)

#### Noun

خالی • (halı)
* carpet, a fabric used as a complete floor covering
    Synonym: كلیم (kilim)

##### Derived terms

* خالی دوشه‌مك (halı döşemek, “to carpet”)
* خالیجی (halıcı, “carpetmaker”)
* خالیچه (halıça, “small Turket carpet”)

##### Descendants

* Turkish: halı
* → Albanian: halli
* → Bulgarian: халия (halija)
* → Greek: χαλί (chalí)
* → Persian: خالی (xâli)
** Middle Armenian: խալի (xali)
*** Armenian: խալի (xali)
* → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: ха̀лија
    Latin script: hàlija
* → Zazaki: xali

#### Further reading

* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “halı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1849
* Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “خالی”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 204b
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “خالی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 529
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Tapes”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, column 1649
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “خالی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 1844
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “halı”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “خالی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 825

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Arabic خَالٍ (ḵālin, “empty, void”), a derivation from the verb خَلَا (ḵalā, “to be empty, to be free”).

#### Adjective

خالی • (hali)
* empty, void, devoid of content, containing nothing or nobody
    Synonym: بوش (boş)
* vacant, unoccupied, not being used or not being inhabited
    Synonym: منحل (münhall)

##### Derived terms

* خالی اولمق (hali olmak, “to be empty, void”)
* خالی براقمق (hali bırakmak, “to leave empty”)

##### Descendants

* Turkish: hali

#### Further reading

* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “hali1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1849
* Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “hâlî”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎ (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 379
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “خالی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 529
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Vacuus”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, column 1710
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “خالی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 1844
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “hali”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “خالی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 825

## Persian
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [xɑː.liː]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [xɑː.liː]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [xɑː.liː]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [xɑː.liː]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [xɔː.li]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [xɒː.liː]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [χɔ.li]

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Arabic خَالٍ (ḵālin).

#### Adjective

| Dari | خالی |
| Iranian Persian | خالی |
| Tajik | холӣ |
خالی • (xâli)
* empty, devoid
    Synonym: تهی (tohi)
    بشقاب خالی ― bošqâb-e xâli ― empty plate
    خالی از توهّم ― xâli az tavahhom ― devoid of imagination; unimaginative
* empty, unoccupied
    این میز خالی شد. (at a restaurant) ― in miz xâli šod. ― This table is now available.
    جات خالی بود. ― jâ-t xâli bud. ― You were missed. (literally, “Your place was empty.”)
* (chiefly Dari) merely, only

##### Derived terms

* خالی کردن (xâli kardan)

##### Descendants

* → Assamese: খালী (khali)
* → Bengali: খালি (khali)
* → Hindustani:
    Hindi: ख़ाली (xālī)
    Urdu: خالی (xālī)
*   * → Phalura: xaalí, خالیۡ
* → Sylheti: ꠈꠣꠟꠤ (xáli)
* → Telugu: ఖాళీ (khāḷī)

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Old Armenian Կարին (Karin), a city which, spelled in Arabic قَالِيقَلَا (qālīqalā), was famed for rugs. Compare Arabic زَرْبِيَّة (zarbiyya, “rug”) supposedly being from the name of Azerbaijan.

#### Noun

خالی • (xâli)
* carpet
    Synonyms: فرش (farš), قالیچه (qâliče), تنبسه (tanbase), گلیم (gelim)

##### Alternative forms

* قالی (qâli)

##### Descendants

* → Middle Armenian: խալի (xali)
** Armenian: խալի (xali)
* → Azerbaijani: xalı, xalça
* → Ottoman Turkish: خالی (halı), قالی (kalı)
** Turkish: halı
** → Albanian: halli
** → Bulgarian: халия (halija)
** → Greek: χαλί (chalí)
** → Persian: خالی (xâli)
*** Middle Armenian: խալի (xali)
**** Armenian: խալի (xali)
** → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: ха̀лија
    Latin script: hàlija
** → Zazaki: xali
* → Turkmen: haly

## Urdu
### Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian خالی (xâlī), from Arabic خَالٍ (ḵālin).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Urdu) IPA: /xɑː.liː/
* Audio (Pakistan):(file)
* Rhymes: -iː
* Hyphenation: خا‧لی

### Adjective

خَالی • (xālī) (indeclinable, Hindi spelling ख़ाली)
* empty, vacant
    ایک خالی ڈبہ ― ek xālī ḍabbā ― an empty box
    وہ خالی ہاتھ لوٹ آیا ― vo xālī hāth lauṭ āyā ― he returned empty-handed
* (by extension) emptyhanded
* desolate, deserted, uninhabited
* merely, only
* devoid

### References

* “خالی”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
* “خالی”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
* Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “خالی”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.

## Ushojo
### Noun

خالی (xālī)
* Dhu al-Qa'dah, the eleventh month of the Islamic calendar